The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-09-19
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Mr.. George V. N. Lathrop, the Ameri
can Minister, has returned 10 his post a,
St. Petersburg. s5a3
Mr.. Vaudeville. who was charged with
violating the crimes act at the same time
MIR. O'B1ien'S oilense was committed: has
been arrested at Mitchellstown. ).
The last Of the wounded Of the ill.fated
Niagara excuraionisls remaining at CHATS
worth, Ill, Mrs. 8. r. Borden, Of Tonica
ILL.,, died yesterday. This places the totaj
number Of victims at so. HHt55t{ 3s,,Ngt
The large cattlo sheds and warehouse q,
the Iowa City distillery, at Iowa City. Ia
were burned by an incendiary SATURDAY.
morning. Loss, $4,000; INSURANCE, So 500
The main building Of the diatillery
escaped unipjured. 81 y. 255l~ 5. :
It is rumored that the Standard Oil On,
has secured the franchises OF the defunct
South Mountain Railroad Company.
which has been surveyed. and partly fn.
ished as an air line route from Harrisburp
to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. &I077"'A
The Southeast Indiana NJ. e. Conier.
ence, in aession at Edinbure, Ind. elected
Rsv. J. 8. Lewis and W. R.. Lathrop min.
lsterlal delegates to the General Confer.
ence. E. F. Ritter and Will, Cumback
were chosen lsy delegated. ID ~ :
Charles Monroe, who is said 10 ba for.
ger, jumped from 8 train twelve miles
south OF Coatsayille,, Thursdsy. while thu
train WAS running twelve miles an hour.
The train was stopped and he wss recap.
tured. He was not much hurt.
Ex.Judse Dittenhoeaer, as counsel for
a. |. NJ: Palmer, Of tho Madison souare
Theatre, New York City, has obtained An
injunction restraining Joseph Cohay. Jno.
N. Hickey and Fenwick Armstrong from
producing the plays ''Hazel Kirke" and
young AIRS. Winthrop" :.
P. Il. Bushnell, a Bannock, No, saloon.
keeper, maddened BY drink, started out on
shooting expedition. Without provoca.
tion he fired two shots at Jsmen Javrers.
who, at the irpt shot, fired In returp'
shooting Buellnell desd. The Corouer'a
jury e1onorated Jaggsrs on tie ground Of
Belf.defsnse. ~ ! ll5}5jl p, -. - =
The bursting Of main in Washington
yenterday tloodsd some OF the streets and
caused water famine. L street. from
Nineteenth TO Twenty.i,at ntreeta, was
like q river, and there WAS water enough
to float boat. The damage to property ia
considerable, but the greatest danger is in
case fire breaks out. s. I, ic5r IA Eat.51
Mark Skinner, Of Chicago, who 40 Presi.
dent Of tho Sanitary Commission. collect.
ed and distributed 5000 600 TO sick and
wounded noldiefs during the civil war.
died Fsiday night at Manchester. VI
aged a.: He had been in feeble health
ior nome timo. Al. estate Of 100000 is
lett by him to his daughters.
J. W. Manning, OF Cambridge, Mass
has brought suit for 100000 against the
Hon. Asa, French ct al, judges Of the
Court Of Commissioners I OF Alabama
Claims. Manning was q lawyer and was
debarrsd by the Court from prscticinr be.
fore them, and he now seeks redress
claiming that the Courts action was lie.
gal. g7t NJ 7-'t
A seven-months old child Of a family
named Smith, residing four miles west Of
Racine, Wis, was omothered to death in
q peculiar manner. Mrs. Smith had
placed it in g box containing email quan-
tity Of straw while she did her house.
work. When she looked again after a
while she found large dog in the boz on
top ct the baby. When picked up the
child was dead. II. ~ 4 ii3,S- -
There is great excitement at Minersyille.
Pa.,, over the murder oil William Jones. a
fire boes at Glen Carbon Colliery. Before
Jones died he made a statement that
Tom Brennan, tho "boatman," shot him.
There arc nino men in the township
named Tom Brennan, and each has some
other appslletion by which he is dist;n.
guished. Half dozen coal and iron police.
msn hGetencd to the scene, and after
travelling two miles under ground. iouud
Brennan. He was lodged in jail. He de-
clares bis innocence. / az 4 a III l,'
s. A double attempt at train wreckine on
the Jefferson City brsuch OF the Chicago
& Alton Railroad was made Friday after.
noon. When near Guthrie the engineer
of north bound accommodation train dis
covered On obstruction on the track and
stopped the train in time to avoid acc;.
dent. he found q heavy iron fab plata
had been fastened across the track. Ths
train proceeded cautiously and about two
milea further on found the track again OBJ.
strucled by pile of ties. Theas velo
removed and the train proceeded without
accident. ;,:-i, =
Henry Rsidel, q German, until recently
employed as g weaver in the Arlington
Mills, a! Wilmington, Del, murdered his
wife and 0year.old BON early yesterday
morning, and then made an unsuccessful
attempt to take his own life. Reidel
awoke about 80 O'Clock yesterday morn.
Ing, and says he was seized with a desire
to die, and as he did not want to leave bis
wife and child unprotected, he took up a
pistol and crept stealthily into the adjooin.
Ing room where they were in bed. Both
were sound asleep, and hoi shot them
through the head, death resultiug instant.
ly. He then aimed q bullet at his own
head, but the bullet glanced of the sknll
and made q deep but not dangerous
wound. Reidel Is in custody. .''@T'f \ I